Frank Breher performed his Ph.D. studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Marburg (10.1998 to 03.2001) under the supervision of Prof. W. Uhl. He spent his postdoctoral period in the research group of Prof. H. Grützmacher at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland (DFG fellowship), where he became an independent researcher in 2002 supported by a Liebig fellowship. In 2005 he accepted a faculty position at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and became Assistant Professor in January 2006. Subsequently, he was promoted to W3-Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in April 2010. His research interests centre around the synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of organometallic and coordination compounds of unusual Main Group element cages/clusters and transition metal complexes. Spectroscopic techniques including cyclic voltammetry, EPR spectroscopy, and advanced NMR methods as well as density functional theory calculations are also of interest. In 2016, he was awarded the faculty teaching award. Since October 2016, he is Dean of Study Affairs (Chemistry).

Junior PI

Junior Group Leader

Dr. Alexander Hinz

Engesserstr. 15
Gebäude 30.45 (Raum 518)
76131 Karlsruhe

office

+49-(0)721-608 420 93

Email

alexander.hinz(at)kit.edu

Alexander Hinz obtained his Diplom under the supervision of Prof. Martin Köckerling at the University of Rostock with studies of transition-metal-containing ionic liquids in 2012. For his doctoral studies, he joined the group of Prof. Axel Schulz at the same university and explored new group 15 singlet biradicaloids and their reactivity. In 2015, he seized the opportunity to join Prof. Jose Goicoechea’s group at the University of Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher, where he investigated the chemistry of heavy analogues of the cyanate anion. Since April 2018, he has been recipient of a Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and is developing sterically highly demanding substituents for the stabilisation of terminal main-group and transition-metal nitrides. His new webpage has recently been lauched, please click here.

MA-, PhD students and postdocs (arranged in alphabetical order)

Lea Bayer

lab 519

+49-(0)721-608 487 79

Email

LeaBayer(at)gmx.de

“Chiral [n]Phosphaferrocenophanes”

Bernhard Birenheide

lab 519

+49-(0)721-608 487 79

Email

bernhard(at)birenheide.org

“Stimuli-responsive ligands in coordination chemistry”

Dr. Eva Deck

lab 521

+49-(0)721-608 466 82

Email

eva.deck(at)kit.edu

“Synthesis and reactivity of metal complexes featuring new carbene ligands”

Wolfram Feuerstein

lab 302

+49-(0)721-608 480 65

Email

wolfram.feuerstein(at)kit.edu

“Synthesis and reactivity of metal complexes with interesting photochemical properties”

Former members (PhD students and postdocs; arranged in chronological order)

After his PhD, Ivo joined the group of Prof. C.C. Cummins (MIT) as a postdoc, supported by a fellowship of the SNF. Subsequently, he went to the UBC Vancouver for a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. D. P. Gates. Ivo is now “akademischer Rat” at the University of Würzburg.

After his PhD, Matthias joined the group of Stosh Kozimor (LANL) as a postdoc, subsequently went to the “Projekt Competence E” (Karlsruhe) and recently started at Freudenberg New Technologies.

Dr. Pascual Oña BurgosPostdoc (AvH-fellow)

After his AvH-postdoctoral stay in Karlsruhe, Pascual joined the group of Don Tilley (UC Berkeley), supported by a Marie Curie fellowship. He recently went back to Spain in order to start his independent academic career. All the best!

Dr. Ina Trapp

PhD thesis “Coordination chemistry of multidentate ligand systems”

Ina is now working at Roche Diagnostics.

Dr. Sandra González-GallardoPostdoc

After being a postdoc in our group, Sandra spent some time at the University of Saarbrücken and is now Associate Editor for ChemCatChem.